December 2014 (tbc) – At the two-day OBER (Objective Beer Tasters of Essen Region) Christmas Beer Festival, visitors can taste more than 150 Belgian Christmas and winter beers in the small village of Essen, near the Dutch border. They say that their beer list is one of the best in the world, so you’ll need to go and check this out yourself.

Belgian National Day is the National Day of Belgium celebrated on 21 July each year. It is one of twelve public holidays in Belgium. Anniversary of the date in 1831 that Leopold I swore allegiance to the constitution as the first King of the Belgians